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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Pyraloidea » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae)

Family Crambidae - Crambid Snout Moths

Classification · Pronunciation · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Internet References
Hymenia perspectalis small brown and white patterned moth - Lygropia rivulalis Moth - Conchylodes concinnalis Mint-loving Pyrausta Moth - Hodges #5071 - Pyrausta acrionalis SPM019143 - Elophila gyralis Odd Moth Moth -? - Mimoschinia rufofascialis Think this is Achyra spp? - Achyra rantalis
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Pyraloidea
Family Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)
Pronunciation
KRAM-bid-eye
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly a subfamily (Crambinae) of Pyralidae
BugGuide currently follows the classification shown at All-Leps (See discussion here). Jean-François Landry and Don Lafontaine of Agriculture Canada, and John Burns and Scott Miller of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History are curators of the list, with assistance from others named at the bottom of this page. The classification of moths is continuously under study, and further changes are inevitable.
Numbers
About 850 species in 9 subfamilies in North America listed at All-Leps.
About 11,630 described species in 15 subfamilies in the world.
Size
Small to medium: wingspan usually 10-35 mm.
Identification
Proboscis with scales at base; tympanal organs (ears) at base of abdomen ventrally and 'opened' anteriomedially (visible in anteriorly-angled lateral view).
Range
Cosmopolitan
Habitat
In or on terrestrial or aquatic vegetation; one group lives only in nests of arboreal ants.
Food
Larvae are stem borers, root feeders, leaf tiers, and leaf miners.
Remarks
Includes many economically important pest species.
Internet References
Family characteristics plus biology and references (Gerald Fauske, Moths of North Dakota)
Taxonomic classification including subfamilies and species numbers (Brian Pitkin, Butterflies and Moths of the World)
The Crambidae of North America by C. H. Fernald (1896) - Internet Archive
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 23 August, 2005 - 2:40pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Ted Kropiewnicki, Aaron Schusteff, Corey Husic, v belov, Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 July, 2011 - 6:42pm

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